Applications

Next-generation gPodder user interface mockups

Andrew Zhilin has been working with Thomas Perl on a next-generation user interface for Thomas' podcast client, gPodder. Thomas walks us through them:

Back in December 2010, Andrew started with the first mock-ups based on the screenshots from meego.com. After that, we decided to go a step further and make it look even more futuristic (this was partly inspired by Metro - two months before #feb11). Most of the title bar and podcast list design have been kept (although evolved) in the current design. This is also the first time that Andrew integrated the playback feature into the mock-ups - a player "widget" that can be pulled down. In the current version, it's still a widget that can be brought in with a tab, but it's placed on the bottom.

It's worth looking to see how differently the same functionality can be presented to the user.

Nintendo 64 emulator running on Nokia N950

Javier S. Pedro has posted a video of his efforts in getting an N64 emulator running on his N950:there’s a quite a nice speed bump when compared to the N900. No frameskipping was used, and CPU clock was at 800Mhz (set by ondemand governor, and it even had some 20% idle CPU time to spare — as long as it was not in the background, when compositor kicks in).A video is included in the article.